Short description of your proposed project: Extension of media center, flexible computer lab time beyond school hours to provide extra tutoring and parent education.Vance would employ staff to teach classes to parents about how to help their child at home.We envision students and parents working together on projects as they learn to utilize appropriate resources that lead to student success in the 21st century learning skills.Specific topics would include “Math Activities to Use at Home”, “Internet and Print Research Skills for Children of All Ages”, “How to Use Early Learning Toolkit, Audacity, Powerpoint, etc. to Enhance Your Child’s Learning”, “Active Engagement With Instructional Websites”, “How Parents Can Enforce Use of Reading Strategies Taught in the Classroom”.
Describe how the project (PCC and/or SBA) would enhance services for health care delivery, education, or children –and how access to citizens with disabilities would be ensured. This project would provide media and technology access to students and their families.It would provide time and staffing to allow for research for students, tutoring and parent education.During the summer, we would be able to keep our media facility open and staffed for book checkout and technology use which would help students maintain the use of their reading and math skills.All of these initiatives would increase student achievement and help to lessen the achievement gap and digital divide. We are a handicapped accessible site.
Describe the capacity of the proposed Public Computing Center(s) and the populations to be served, including possible membership fees and restrictions. We could serve a maximum of 25 families each session depending on the need.More families could be accommodated in the media center for book reading and research.Our computer lab houses 26 computers with one person at a computer.Populations include students in grades K-5 and their parents/guardians.Our ESL teacher will work specifically with the Hispanic population to assure their understanding of the program.She would be an excellent resource for training.We will make direct family contact with those families that do not have access to printmaterials or digital resources to assure their awareness of the program and its benefits.Our students come from six subsidized housing projects. Family Session Offerings will include: ØAccessing resources for online learning for parents and students ØAccessing Information related to parenting, jobs, online training for job readiness ØOnline publishing ØOnline Safety ØThe North Carolina Standard Course of Student- how to support your child’s success ØUse of MS Office and comparable free applications for: resumes, business letters, budgeting, presentations ØDigital Communications – set up email accounts and train in use ØUse of school district sites, government sites, online forms
Summarize the viability of the PCC project including technology to be used, qualifications of management team, partnerships, and a project timeline. Our computer lab with 26 computers will be used as well as our media center and its materials.The Promethean Board, document camera and LCD projector may be operated by Vance staff members.This project would allow us to serve those populations who do not have digital access or have a lack of print materials at home for their children’s exposure to print.We would begin this project October 1, 2009 and continue for the 3 year period, with services being offered in the summer.The classes would meet afterschool or in the early evening on the Vance campus.
For SBA funding requests, describe the following:Target population; barriers to adoption, awareness campaign and how its impact will be measured;how the project is an effective and appropriate means for creating sustainable adoption in the target population; how the project is innovative. Our target population will be our low SES and Hispanic families.We will make families aware through fliers, phone calls, home visits, direct contact from teachers and our ESL coordinator.The impact of the project will be measured by family participation documented through sign in sheets, surveys of the effectiveness of the program completed by participating families, assessment and test scores of the students involved.
For both PCC and SBA requests, explain how the project will be sustainable beyond the stimulus funding period. The sustainability of the project will happen through the Vance community support.This “jump start” will allow staff, parents, students and the community to see how this initiative will benefit students and the greater community.Parents will feel a greater connection to the school and gain valuable tools to help themselves and their children. We will build capacity with volunteers to do the training and support of participants, pursue funding and community partners from other organizations to sustain these efforts once we get them established. We plan to work with our partners and volunteers to build capacity to sustain high quality programs and participant support including our PTO, Children First and ACS Foundation. We will develop materials for trainings that can be carried out by volunteers. ACS will sustain the technology and facilities.
How much money are you requesting?Please show a line-item budget for your request(Brenda Mills is compiling our collective budget). We would offer two one hour sessions a month beginning in October 1, 2009 through May 1, 2010.Sessions would not be offered in December; we will have 8 staff members present at each session. We would need a minimum of eight staff members to teach and assist at $25 an hour and 8 annual hours for planning, development, and evaluation for each of the 8 teachers. The total number of staff hours for the 1st year is 120.Total budget is $3000 for the months of October, 2009 – May, 2010. Total for 3 years is $7000. Beginning June 14, 2010 through August 14, 2010 we would open our media center and computer lab once a week for the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon for the purpose of reading, book check out and computer use.We would need four staff for these months with 4 hours of planning, development, and evaluation for a total of 172 staff hours for summer program.The total for June 14 – August 14 would be $4000; total summer program for 3 years - $10,000.
Can your agency provide cash or in-kindcontributions to help meet the 20 percent matching requirement?Please describe. Our facility would be used for this project at $50 per hour user fee for 61 hours annually = $3,050 annually. Technical support and equipment replacement @ $200/yr/computer and $100/year for projector for 30 computers and 1 data projector=$9,800.
Extension of media center, flexible computer lab time beyond school hours to provide extra tutoring and parent education. Vance would employ staff to teach classes to parents about how to help their child at home. We envision students and parents working together on projects as they learn to utilize appropriate resources that lead to student success in the 21st century learning skills. Specific topics would include “Math Activities to Use at Home”, “Internet and Print Research Skills for Children of All Ages”, “How to Use Early Learning Toolkit, Audacity, Powerpoint, etc. to Enhance Your Child’s Learning”, “Active Engagement With Instructional Websites”, “How Parents Can Enforce Use of Reading Strategies Taught in the Classroom”.
This project would provide media and technology access to students and their families. It would provide time and staffing to allow for research for students, tutoring and parent education. During the summer, we would be able to keep our media facility open and staffed for book checkout and technology use which would help students maintain the use of their reading and math skills. All of these initiatives would increase student achievement and help to lessen the achievement gap and digital divide.
We are a handicapped accessible site.
We could serve a maximum of 25 families each session depending on the need. More families could be accommodated in the media center for book reading and research. Our computer lab houses 26 computers with one person at a computer. Populations include students in grades K-5 and their parents/guardians. Our ESL teacher will work specifically with the Hispanic population to assure their understanding of the program. She would be an excellent resource for training. We will make direct family contact with those families that do not have access to print materials or digital resources to assure their awareness of the program and its benefits. Our students come from six subsidized housing projects.
Family Session Offerings will include:
Ø Accessing resources for online learning for parents and students
Ø Accessing Information related to parenting, jobs, online training for job readiness
Ø Online publishing
Ø Online Safety
Ø The North Carolina Standard Course of Student- how to support your child’s success
Ø Use of MS Office and comparable free applications for: resumes, business letters, budgeting, presentations
Ø Digital Communications – set up email accounts and train in use
Ø Use of school district sites, government sites, online forms
Our computer lab with 26 computers will be used as well as our media center and its materials. The Promethean Board, document camera and LCD projector may be operated by Vance staff members. This project would allow us to serve those populations who do not have digital access or have a lack of print materials at home for their children’s exposure to print. We would begin this project October 1, 2009 and continue for the 3 year period, with services being offered in the summer. The classes would meet afterschool or in the early evening on the Vance campus.
Our target population will be our low SES and Hispanic families. We will make families aware through fliers, phone calls, home visits, direct contact from teachers and our ESL coordinator. The impact of the project will be measured by family participation documented through sign in sheets, surveys of the effectiveness of the program completed by participating families, assessment and test scores of the students involved.
The sustainability of the project will happen through the Vance community support. This “jump start” will allow staff, parents, students and the community to see how this initiative will benefit students and the greater community. Parents will feel a greater connection to the school and gain valuable tools to help themselves and their children. We will build capacity with volunteers to do the training and support of participants, pursue funding and community partners from other organizations to sustain these efforts once we get them established. We plan to work with our partners and volunteers to build capacity to sustain high quality programs and participant support including our PTO, Children First and ACS Foundation. We will develop materials for trainings that can be carried out by volunteers. ACS will sustain the technology and facilities.
We would offer two one hour sessions a month beginning in October 1, 2009 through May 1, 2010. Sessions would not be offered in December; we will have 8 staff members present at each session. We would need a minimum of eight staff members to teach and assist at $25 an hour and 8 annual hours for planning, development, and evaluation for each of the 8 teachers. The total number of staff hours for the 1st year is 120. Total budget is $3000 for the months of October, 2009 – May, 2010. Total for 3 years is $7000.
Beginning June 14, 2010 through August 14, 2010 we would open our media center and computer lab once a week for the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon for the purpose of reading, book check out and computer use. We would need four staff for these months with 4 hours of planning, development, and evaluation for a total of 172 staff hours for summer program. The total for June 14 – August 14 would be $4000; total summer program for 3 years - $10,000.
Our facility would be used for this project at $50 per hour user fee for 61 hours annually = $3,050 annually. Technical support and equipment replacement @ $200/yr/computer and $100/year for projector for 30 computers and 1 data projector=$9,800.